Mechanical Design

CATIA - Mechanical Engineering 2 Configuration

(ME2)

CATIA V5R21
Mechanical Design
CATIA - Mechanical Engineering 2 Configuration
(ME2)

Configuration overview

This configuration provides in one seat all the necessary tools to perform
advanced 3D engineering of parts and assemblies in the context of the full scale
digital mock-up, and generation of production drawings. It includes intuitive
design stress testing functions thus making available early part pre-validation
tools to all designers. As a CATIA P2 configuration, this solution offers advanced 3D oriented productivity
features, such as fly-through navigation and advanced specification graph display and manipulation. Customer
benefit from a high productivity solution which is natively interoperable with other CATIA Version 5 sets of
solutions and which offers integration tools for compatibility with CATIA Version 4 and data interfaces to most
frequently used industry standards, which make it a configuration of choice for existing Version 4 customers. As
a CATIA P2 configuration, customers benefit from a seat definition which can be easily and seamlessly
upgraded by adding shape design capabilities, thus allowing to design parts of greater complexity with hybrid
modeling methodologies.

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CATIA - Mechanical Engineering 2 Configuration (ME2) Product List

CATIA - Knowledge Expert KE1 _ _

Real Time Rendering RT1 _ _

CATIA - Assembly Design _ ASD _

Generative Part Structural Analysis _ GPS _

CATIA - Part Design _ PDG _

CATIA - Generative Drafting _ GDR _

CATIA - Interactive Drafting ID1 _ _

CATIA - Object Manager _ COM _

CATIA - CADAM Interface CC1 _ _

CATIA - IGES INTERFACE IG1 _ _

CATIA - V4 Integration _ V4I _

CATIA - Generative Shape Design GS1 _ _

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 CATIA - Knowledge Expert
Ensure the consistency and quality of designers? work using corporate standard rules bases
created with CATIA ? Knowledge Expert 2 (KWE).

Product overview

CATIA - Knowledge Expert 1 (KE1) allows designers to import and use corporate
knowledge stored in rule bases created using CATIA - Knowledge Expert 2 (KWE).
Thus design compliance is ensured with established standards. These rule bases
automate knowledge processes such as:

best practices,, application processes, and, design validation and corrections, The reports generated provide
better identification of standards violations and help to implement necessary corrections. As an integrated product,
CATIA - Knowledge Expert 1 (KE1) can be used in conjunction with all other Version 5 products to share process
applications throughout the enterprise. The Knowledge Expert solution consists of a buidtime product, CATIA -
Knowledge Expert 2 (KWE), and a runtime solution, CATIA - Knowledge Expert 1 (KE1).

Real Time Rendering

Enable designers to leverage technological material specifications to produce realistic renderings
of their model.

Product overview

Real Time Rendering (RT1) Enables designers to leverage technological material

specifications to produce realistic renderings of their model. Texture can be created
from scratch, modified from imported digital images, or selected from the included
library. Associativity is maintained between the material library and the material
applied to the parts. Materials can be applied through a specification-driven approach
or through simple selection. Real-time display computations quickly convert models to realistic renderings.

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 CATIA - Assembly Design
Easily define mechanical assembly constraints, automatically position parts and check assembly
consistency.

Product overview

CATIA - Assembly Design 2 (ASD) offers a new generation CATIA P2 product for
managing assemblies. Assembly Design products integrate with other CATIA Version
5 applications like part design and drawing generation.
CATIA - Assembly Design 2 (ASD) establishes mechanical assembly constraints using
mouse movements or graphical commands to easily snap parts into position.
Assembly Design 2 helps designers managing large, hierarchical assemblies of CATIA V4, V5, VRML or STEP parts
using a top-down or bottom-up approach. Parts and sub-assemblies are easily reused in the assembly without data
duplication. Productivity tools like automatic exploded view generation, collision and clearance checking. Automated
BOM generation greatly reduce time and increase quality. Flexible Sub-Assembly gives user the ability to dynamically
unlink product structure and mechanical behavior. This unique command allows to move individual component in the
parent assembly or to manage different internal positions of instantiated sub-component. Introducing an intuitive user
interface, user interface across NT and UNIX, offering productivity, ease of use, and low training costs.

Generative Part Structural Analysis

Allows structural and modal analysis to be performed on parts at any stage of the design
process.

Product overview

Generative Part Structural Analysis (GPS) allows designers to understand how their
designs behave and to accurately calculate the displacements and stresses within the
part under a variety of loading conditions. It also allows the vibration characteristics of
parts to be assessed by calculating the natural frequencies and the associated mode
shapes. Analyses can be performed on volume parts, surface parts and wireframe
geometries. GPS is ideal for designers who are not experts in finite element analysis. The finite element mesh
automatically adjusts to ensure accurate results without manual intervention. The analysis specification is an extension
of the design specification and the analysis is performed directly on the design geometry. The user interface is a natural
extension of that in the CATIA design workbenches. This makes it intuitive and natural for designers to use GPS to
ensure that their parts meet their design requirements.

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 CATIA - Part Design
Design complex parts with highly productive and robust modeling features in an intuitive
environment

Product overview

This CATIA-P2 offers a new generation CATIA product for part design with one
interface on NT and UNIX.. Interoperates with CATIA Version 4 data and
methodologies.
The "smart-solid" design kernel combines high productivity feature-based toolsets
and boolean methodologies, delivering a flexible solution enabling multiple design
approaches. CATIA - Part Design 2 (PDG) can be used with CATIA V5 applications like Assembly Design, Drafting,
Wireframe & Surface

CATIA - Generative Drafting

Generate drawings from 3D part and assembly designs with assistance to manage complex
schema

Product overview

Generative Drafting for CATIA-P2 is new-generation CATIA products which allows

users to automatically generate associative drafting from 3D mechanical designs and
assemblies produced with CATIA Version 5. When combined with Interactive Drafting
1, the Generative Drafting product 2 benefits both from integrated 2D interactive
functionality and from a higher productive environment for drawings dress-up and
annotation. Generative Drafting 2 product offers a flexible and scalable solution to create associative drawings from
3D mechanical designs, surfaces, hybrid parts and assemblies created with CATIA Version 4 or Version 5. 3D
dimensions can be automatically generated with control over their placement. Designers are able to add
post-generation annotations with standards-based dress-up features. Associativity of the drawings to the 3D master
representation enables users to concurrently work on their design and drawings.

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CATIA - Interactive Drafting
Address 2D design and drawing production requirements.

Product overview

Interactive Drafting is a new generation CATIA product to address 2D design and

drawing production requirements, It offers a highly productive, and intuitive,
interactive drafting system. It also enriches Generative Drafting with both integrated
2D interactive functionality and with a productive environment for drawings dress-up
and annotation.

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 CATIA - Object Manager
CATIA - Object Manager 2 (COM) provides a highly scalable and open platform for collaborative
product development, which combines the best of the current CATIA technologies with new
generation standards

Product overview

The Next Generation CATIA Solution Version 5 is built on a totally new scalable
architecture, which combines the best of the current CATIA technologies with new
generation standards. It offers total single system image across Native Windows and
UNIX environments, and an extensible environment capable of supporting all aspects
of the Digital Enterprise, from Digital Mockup, Digital Manufacturing, to Digital
Operation and Digital Plant definition. The Version 5 system architecture offers a unique scalability environment which
gives to customers the choice of selecting the optimum set of solutions, given the CAD specialization of the intended
users, the complexity of the project and corresponding functional requirements. The 3 possible choices are CATIA-P1,
CATIA-P2 and CATIA P3 installations.

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 CATIA - CADAM Interface
Share drafting information between the CATIA-CADAM Drafting and V5 drafting products.

Product overview

The product CATIA - CADAM Interface 1 (CC1) provides the user with an integrated
capability to share 2D drafting information between CATIA CADAM Drafting (CCD)
and V5 Drafting products.

This integrated capability provides existing CCD users with the flexibility to easily
integrate the V5 CATIA product portfolio into their environment, while maintaining their current practices and
procedures based on their CCD product use.

CATIA - IGES INTERFACE

CATIA - IGES Interface 1 (IG1) helps users working in a heterogeneous CAD/CAM environment to
exchange data through the neutral IGES format.

Product overview

CATIA - IGES Interface (IG1) helps users working in a heterogeneous CAD/CAM

environment to exchange data in a neutral format. This utility supports IGES Version
5.3 and provides naming management to map IGES and CATIA identifiers. Users can
perform reliable bi-directional 2D and 3D data exchange between dissimilar systems
with direct and automated access to IGES files. CATIA - IGES Interface 1 (IG1) can
process wire frame geometries, surfaces and trimmed surfaces, conic curves and color.

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 CATIA - V4 Integration
CATIA - V4 Integration 1 (V41) helps existing CATIA Version 4 customers take advantage of the
advanced technologies of Version 5 while preserving their investment in V4 data.

Product overview

Dassault Systemes has an unprecedented record of accomplishment in delivering

upward compatible CATIA Solutions within a version life cycle and across major new
versions.
Thanks to a unique approach of gradual introduction of Next Generation software
components within Version 4, started since V4R1.3, this new product line offers a
smooth progression for current users of CATIA Solutions Version 4. Beyond the best of CATIA Version 4 Technologies
brought forward in the new generation product line, CATIA - V4 Integration 2 (V4i), which is only part of CATIA-P2 set
of solutions, offers numerous integration features which make seamless hybrid installations possible, involving both
applications from CATIA Version 4 and applications from CATIA Version 5, while benefiting from data compatibility
between the two product lines.

CATIA - Generative Shape Design

Create in-context, specification-driven shapes based on a combination of wireframes and
extensive multiple surface features.

Product overview

CATIA - Generative Shape Design 1 (GS1) helps design mechanical shapes based on
a combination of wireframe and multiple surface features. CATIA - Generative Shape
Design 1 (GS1) provides an extensive set of tools for creating and modifying
mechanical surfaces used in the design of complex shapes or hybrid parts. GS1
brings smart tools, like powercopy to manage the feature reuse. Its feature-based
approach offers a productive and intuitive design environment where design methodologies and specifications can be
captured and reused.

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ABOUT CATIA V5R21

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